The producers behind Netflix’s hit four-parter Adolescence have just announced their next project
The brains behind Netflix’s chilling crime series Adolescence are gearing up to transform one of the most unsettling films ever made into a TV drama.
BBC film Threads was shot in just 17 days and tracks the lives of two Sheffield families as nuclear war kicks off worldwide. First hitting screens back in 1984, the film delves deep into the aftermath of a fictional clash between the US and the Soviet Union, spanning years and generations.
As the families grapple with loss, health woes and a desperate scramble for resources, viewers hear eerie government broadcasts offering advice for various scenarios that could play out post-nuclear attack. One grim message details how to deal with a death in your ‘fallout room’, including the best practice around corpse labelling and storage.
TikTok is flooded with videos dubbing it the most horrifying film ever made, and it currently boasts an impressive 92 per cent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics have even given it a rare perfect score of 100 per cent.
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Now it seems this tale is set to spook a whole new generation with a fresh take from Warp Films. The Sheffield-based crew recently teamed up with Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Stephen Graham’s Matriarch Productions to deliver Adolescence, a four-part Netflix series delving into incel culture in UK schools, reports the Mirror.
Warp Films boss Mark Herbert has teased more details on their upcoming project, Threads, saying: “Threads was, and remains, an unflinchingly honest drama that imagines the devastating effects of nuclear conflict on ordinary people.”
“This story aligns perfectly with our ethos of telling powerful, grounded narratives that deeply connect with audiences. Reimagining this classic film as a TV drama gives us a unique opportunity to explore its modern relevance.”
No further details have been given yet about the project and a release date and cast remain under wraps.
Just last year, the BBC broadcast Threads for the first time in 10 years. The film’s producer and director Mick Jackson gave a special introduction and revealed a chilling detail.
“The government announcements you hear in this movie are real. You may be familiar with them from watching Panorama: If the Bomb Drops,” he revealed.
Somebody got hold of these things which were pre-recorded and pre-made, that were only to be used in the immediate run-up to nuclear war.”
He continued: “They’re chilling. The narrator is saying in a very bland voice, ‘If someone dies in your house, put them in a plastic sack and number it and name it and put it in a place in the garden and mark it with a stick’. That’s chilling.”
Threads is currently available to stream free on BBC iPlayer
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